• Where do things now stand?
The Supreme Court, in the P.A. Inamdar and Others vs State of Maharashtra and Others verdict delivered in August 2005, abolished state quotas in private unaided professional colleges. This led to the political class striking back by passing the 104th Amendment Bill in Parliament, which mandated that all educational institutions — both government-run and private — will now have to reserve half their seats for SCs/STs and OBCs. Arjun Singh’s move to reserve 49.5 per cent seats in IITs, IIMs and central universities gets its raison d’etre from this legislation.
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